[HACKERS] the optimizer and exists

2002-08-29 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
i think i might've stumbled across a tiny defect in the optimizer. unfortunately, i haven't the knowledge of the code to know where to begin looking at how to address this problem. anyway, consider the following: create table foo( id int2 ); create table bar( id int2 f

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy site?

2002-10-03 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
> Um, doesn't "world's" mean "world is" ? In this situation, the "'s" denotes possession, as in "the most advanced open source database of the world". "worlds" here is basically saying "every world most advanced open source database" and does not, in any case, connote possession. -tfo -

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone want to assist with the translation of the Advocacy site?

2002-10-03 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
> Um, doesn't "world's" mean "world is" ? i forgot to provide a real-world example: http://www.amazon.com/ "Earth's Biggest Selection" -tfo ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-

[HACKERS] Re: Learning from other open source databases

2001-05-04 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Here is a general call for people to review other open-source database > software and report back on things PostgreSQL can learn from them. i don't know how much there is to learn since it doesn't seem as though development has been active in a few years, but there's also

[HACKERS] Re: 7.2 items

2001-05-11 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Here is a small list of big TODO items. I was wondering which ones > people were thinking about for 7.2? > > * Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary key > [inheritance] i was wondering if there was any thought still being given to Oliv

Re: [HACKERS] Time for 7.2.1?

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
is there any further word on 7.2.1, at this point? haven't seen mention of it on the list in a while? is it still waiting on something big? -tfo Bruce Momjian wrote: > Applied to current and 7.2.X. Thanks. > > (No delay for /contrib commits from maintainers.) ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Ooops ... seems we need a re-release pronto

2007-02-06 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
o, but those are the ones reported so far). I have not > been able to reproduce the failures in 8.0 but I think it may have the > same issue in a weaker form. We need a quick re-release I'm afraid. Should the existing source and binaries be pulled in the meantime? -- Thomas F

Re: [HACKERS] Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments

2005-05-11 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
learly creates issues for the developers. -tfo -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On May 11, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Josh Berkus wr

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum in the backend

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
m is going to be put on hold indefinitely after this discussion. Anyway, just wanted to throw out some food for thought for the practicality of a tool like pg_autovacuum. -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http:

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] default database creation with initdb

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
r and the first user used to access any database. Just throwing out another suggestion. -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 61

[HACKERS] pg_dump schema search_path; selectSourceSchema()

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
's no way to configure PostgreSQL to restrict access to the system catalogs in any meaningful way. I'm not really sure how to search for discussions on this topic in the archives, and I'm also not sure whether the forthcoming roles features will go any way toward eliminating t

[HACKERS] bgwriter, inherited temp tables TODO items?

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
heritance list --- but I don't see anything in the code implementingthat, so it evidently didn't get done yet."I don't immediately see TODO items correpsonding to these. Should there be some? Or do these qualify as bugs and should they be submitted to that queue? -- Thomas F. O&#

Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
-initdb.html -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On Jul 20, 2005, at 8:35 PM, Jamie Deppeler wrote: Hi, Having an issue

Re: [HACKERS] bgwriter, inherited temp tables TODO items?

2005-07-21 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Jul 21, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: I'm switching the aftermath of this thread -- http:// archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00501.php -- to - hackers since it raised issues of potential concern to developers. At various poi

Re: [HACKERS] bgwriter, inherited temp tables TODO items?

2005-08-02 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
Great! Is background writer clogging worthy? That's the one that put postgres in a nearly unusable state after this bug was tripped. Thanks! -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 3

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying wal_sync_method

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
l see what I can do. -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-469-5150 615-469-5151 (fax) On Aug 8, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying wal_sync_method

2005-08-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
UFS was the filesystem on the Solaris 9 box. -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-469-5150 615-469-5151 (fax) On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:

[HACKERS] psql listTables

2004-07-23 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
In examining the output of psql -E to get some templates for some queries I'm developing, I noticed in describe.c that there is logic to inform the final IN clause that gets printed for relkind but no similar logic for the CASE clause. Here's what I get from a \d in 7.4.1: SELECT n.nspname as "

Re: [HACKERS] psql listTables

2004-07-23 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
I know, but I don't get too many opportunities to contribute... :) Just figured I'd mention it. -tfo On Jul 23, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F.O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I realize this is a trivial issue, but it seems like logic could be added to the CASE statement to preve

Re: [HACKERS] why is postgres-R not in standard dev Path.

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
See http://www.slony.org/ It's a master-multislave replication system that has a pretty robust development cycle. It just reached a 1.0 release. Whether any solution becomes a core part of the distribution remains, I think, to be seen. -tfo On Jul 27, 2004, at 4:03 AM, chinni wrote: Postg

[HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-08-26 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
I'd love to see a comment added to the linux start-script included in contrib that referenced update-rc.d. It's useful to note because Debian has different runlevels from Red Hat, and update-rc.d will intelligently do the same thing as chkconfig for Debian systems. If it's useful, I could post

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-08-27 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
Sure. I didn't know there was a Debian start script. Because we frequently keep up with the latest changes in postgres (which we regularly use), I always build postgres from source. But that would be a perfectly acceptable solution. -tfo On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tho

Re: [HACKERS] SHMMAX seems entirely broken in OS X 10.4.2

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
, I have: # sysctl -a | grep shm kern.sysv.shmmax: 134217728 kern.sysv.shmmin: 1 kern.sysv.shmmni: 32 kern.sysv.shmseg: 8 kern.sysv.shmall: 1024 Of course, this still doesn't seem to be enough to let postgres play nicely with the iSight... -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information

Re: [HACKERS] SHMMAX seems entirely broken in OS X 10.4.2

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: After restarting, I have: # sysctl -a | grep shm kern.sysv.shmmax: 134217728 kern.sysv.shmmin: 1 kern.sysv.shmmni: 32 kern.sysv.shmseg: 8 kern.sysv.shmall: 1024

Re: [HACKERS] 8.1beta, SunOS and shmget

2005-08-30 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
ms like it would make sense to update the docs for 8.1... -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-469-5150 615-469-5151 (fax) -

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
So what is the thinking of HACKERS? Does it make sense to include nothing and rather allow each distribution to support its own? Or should each distribution known to support postgres be invited to submit the relevant script for inclusion? And, if so, should this be a HACKERS [or other appropria

Re: [HACKERS] pg_autovacuum and v8.0

2004-09-09 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
pg_autovacuum will still be in contrib as of 8.0. It did not make integration with the core distribution. -tfo On Sep 9, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Hervé Piedvache wrote: Hi, I was thinking that new things will appear in v8.0 about pg_autovacuum ?? But I find nothing new in README and/or Version Histor

Re: [HACKERS] pg_autovacuum

2004-09-23 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
You also need to use -L to specify a location for the log file. By default pg_autovacuum just logs to STDERR, so if you daemonize the process (via -D), you won't be able to recover the output easily unless you explicitly select a log file location. -tfo On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Iulia Pacura

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL FREEZE is unsafe

2004-11-27 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
So why not have VACUUM FULL FREEZE just do what you propose: VACUUM FULL then VACUUM FREEZE. -tfo -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On N

Re: [HACKERS] Help me recovering data

2005-02-23 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
Does auto_vacuum vacuum the system tables? -tfo -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On Feb 16, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: Tom Lane wro